Who was known by the name of Niām Khān, upon hearing the
tidings of his father's decease, came in haste*
from Dihlī to the
township of Jalālī, entered the camp*
and despatched the
corpse of his father to Dihlī. On Friday, the seventeenth of the
year above mentioned, he ascended the throne in the palace of
Sulān Fīrūz, which is situated on the banks of the Black water,
with the concurrence of Khān-i-Jahān ibn i Khān-i-Jahān, and
Khān-i-Khānān Farmalī,*
and all the Amīrs, and was addressed
by the title*
of Sulān Sikandar. It is said that at the time of
leaving Dihlī, he went to Shaikh Samā'u-d-Dīn Kanbū,*
the
spiritual guide of Shaikh Jamālī,*
who was one of the greatest
among the Ulamā Shaikhs of his time, on pretence of taking an
omen,*
for this reason that he feared lest the Shaikh might favour
the claims of the other brothers,*
so making his customary daily
walk a pretext, he enquired the meaning of the expression As‘adak
Allāh*
from the Shaikh.

314. When he answered, It means may God Most High make you
fortunate, he besought him saying, Kindly let this expression
fall three several times from your auspicious lips; the Shaikh
did so,*
then he arose and said I have gained my request, then
he besought the Shaikh to assist him, and set out to go to the
army, and after that his rule was firmly established,*
he left
Dihlī, and marched towards*
Rāprī and Itāwa to conquer the
country, and spent seven months there. He also sent Isma‘īl
Khān Lūhānī*
with overtures of peace to King Bārbak Shāh
at*
Jaunpūr, while he proceeded in person against*
‘Īsā
Khān Governor of Patīālī;*
and*
‘Īsā Khān confronted and
fought with him and was wounded, and after tendering his
submission succumbed to his wounds. Rāi Ganesh,*
the Rāja
of Patīālī who was friendly to Bārbak Shāh, came in and had an
interview with the Sulān who*
confirmed him in the Govern­ment
of Patiālī.*
Bārbak Shāh coming from Jaunpūr to Qanauj,
the parties met and an engagement took place between them.*
Mubārak Khān Luhānī,*
who was with the army of Bārbak
Shāh, was taken prisoner in this battle,*
Bārbak Shāh fled to
Badāon, Sulān Sikandar besieged*
that fortress, and Bārbak Shāh
being reduced to extremities sought an interview with the Sulān,
who reassured and encouraged him, and took him along with him to
Jaunpūr, restoring him to his former position upon the throne of
the Sharqī kings, except that he divided certain parganas of these
territories*
among his own Amīrs, detailing armies for each place
and appointing trusted officers of his own following to assist Bār-bak
Shāh.*
Then he took Kalpī from Ā‘zam Khān*
Humāyūn the
son of Khwāja Bāyazīd. From thence he came to Jahtara,*
and
from that place to Gwāliār, sending Khwāja Muḥammad Farmalī
315. with a special robe of honour on an embassy to*
Rāja Mān,*
who
in turn sent his brother's son to pay his respects to the Sulān and
to offer his submission. This nephew of his accordingly accom­panied
the Sulān as far as Baiāna. Sulān Sharq*
the Governor of
Baiāna, the son of Sulān Aḥmad Jilwānī the First, came and visit­ed
him, and was desirous of handing over the key of the fort*
to
the agents of the Sulān; however he changed his mind, and on
arrival at Baiāna strengthened the defences of the fort. The
Sulān proceeded to Agra where Haibat Khān Jilwānī, a subordi­nate
of Sulān Sharf*
fortified himself in the fort of Agra.*
The Sulān left certain of his Amīrs in Agra and*
proceeded to
Baiāna*
and in the year 897 H. (1491 A. D.) Sulān Sharq*
fell into straits and sued for quarter, surrendering the fortress
of Baiāna to the Sulān; that province was then conferred
upon Khān-i-Khānān Farmalī. In the same year the tribe of
Bachgotīs*
in the Jaunpūr territory had assembled to the number
of a hundred thousand cavalry and infantry,*
and were raising
a disturbance. The Sulān proceeded thither and Bārbak Shāh
came in and offered his allegiance. Leaving there, he proceeded
to occupy himself with a hunting expedition to the borders of
Awadh (Oudh), and again returned to Jaunpūr, and arrived at
the fortress of Janhār,*
and engaged in battle with the Amīrs
of Sulān Ḥusain Sharqī who held it, and having defeated them,
without waiting to completely invest the fortress came to Patna;*
and having come to Ārīl,*
which is near Ilāhābās (otherwise called
Prayāg),*
laid waste that district,*
and proceeding by way of
Karra and Mānikpūr hastened to Dalmau',*
and from thence came*
to Shamsābād, and remaining there six months went to Sambal
[whence he again returned to Shamsābād].*

And after the rainy season in the year 900 H. (1494 A. D.) 316.
he set out with the object of chastising the rebels of Patna, and
great slaughter took place and many prisoners were taken; from
thence he proceeded to Jaunpūr.*
In this expedition very many
horses were lost, hardly one in ten remaining alive;*
the zemīn­dārs
of Patua and others wrote and informed Sulān Ḥusain Sharqī
of the loss of the horses, and of the scarcity of supplies in Sulān
Sikandar's army, and invited him (to advance). Sulan Ḥusain col­lected
an army, and marched from Behār with a hundred elephants
against Sulān*
Sikandar, who for his part crossed the Ganges by
the ford of Kantit*
and came to Chenār*
and from thence to
Banāras. Sulān Ḥusain had arrived within seventeen krohs of
Banāras when Sulān Sikandar marched against him rapidly.*
In the midst of his march Sālbāhan the Rāja of Patna, who was
a trusty zemīndār, left Sulān Ḥusain and joined Sulān Sikandar.

Sulān Ḥusain drew up in line of battle, but suffered defeat
and retired towards Patna.*
Sulān Sikandar left the camp, and
pursued him*
with a hundred thousand light cavalry; while thus
engaged he learned that Sulān Ḥusain had gone to Bihār. After
nine days Sulān Sikandar arrived,*
and joining his camp set out
for Bihār. Sulān Ḥusain, leaving his deputy*
in Bihār, could
not remain there, but proceeded to Khul Gānw one of the depen­dencies
of Lakhnautī, and Bihār fell into the hands of Sikandar's
troops.*
Thence the Sulān proceeded to Tirhut and conquered it.